Sharing our family with you across the miles.
Scott and Cara busy shoveling the driveway!
Cara wanted Daddy to make her a snow castle
Cara's silly attempt at a snow angel on the driveway
The snow castle turned into a snow slide
Yeah, fun!
Mommy posing for a quick picture with Cara 
Dancing and playing in the snow was definitely a highlight of our day!
Grandma, Grandpa and Great Grandma headed back for home after breakfast on Saturday! And we went over to Dendra, Larry, and Zaina's house for dinner and more Christmas fun!
Cara and Zaina posing in front of one of their trees
After we shared a yummy dinner it was time to open presents!
They got Cara a HUGE lollipop!
And the pretty pretty Princess game! Zaina has this game and Cara loves to play it at their house so it was an obvious choice to get it for her
All 6 of us!
We had a great time playing games, eating, and then driving around to look at Christmas lights together! Thanks friends for the fun evening!
Santa stopped by while we were sleeping! He must have enjoyed his milk and cookies!
Cara busy checking everything out! She wouldn't stop and pose for a picture, she was much to excited to start ripping into presents!
She got a fur real kitten from Mommy and Daddy that meows and rolls over, very cute! Next best thing to having a REAL one!
Here she opened her zhu zhu hamster and zhu zhu fun house for it to run in
She finally opened Santa's bag of goodies which included the doll she wanted that walks, a ballet outfit for Baby Cara, and a Barbie head that she can do her hair and makeup. Santa also brought her a train which she immediately said was the wrong one :( 
Daddy opening presents
Cara still opening presents (she had lots since she had G & G A's too)
Giving out a Christmas hug to Grandma
Cara looking at one of Grandma's presents
Mommy opening presents
We shared a yummy Christmas brunch after all the presents were opened of homemade pecan rolls, an egg casserole and fresh fruit. I think our camera battery was being recharged during this time. Then we spent the afternoon playing with new toys, assembling, batterying, and cleaning up wrapping paper!
I spent part of my afternoon in the kitchen preparing a Christmas dinner feast of turkey, mashed potatoes,homemade gravy, sweet potatoes, corn, stuffing and rolls! Grandma and Grandpa F came over for dinner with Great Grandma Edwards!
Two views, trying to get everyone in the picture
Cara with her two great grandmas! She was lucky to have them both here to celebrate Christmas with us!
About 20 minutes after this picture was taken I decided to miss the last step going out into the garage and twisted my ankle pretty bad. I spent the rest of the evening on the couch (and no it was not my attempt to get out of helping with dishes). The next day I realized I also hurt my left shoulder and right knee in my fall on the hard cement floor, but could have been a lot worse, just put a damper on my Christmas day!
The kids were as usual very excited to be together and even more excited to get to open presents!
I like to take a couple pictures of the whole room so you can understand the fun and excitement going on
Cara and Mommy opening her present from her cousins Vince and Charlotte
Cara finished opening her presents and decided to help Mommy and Daddy open theirs
New calphalon pans, nice!
We got home and got our reindeer food to sprinkle on lawn for the reindeer
We were sad that it wasn't a White Christmas and in fact had rained all day so the grass was pretty soggy to walk on
Cara and Mommy after church getting everything ready for Santa. We put out the cookies and milk, got Cara ready in her Christmas nightgown, and Mommy and Daddy climbed in her bed with her to read The Night Before Christmas. She was fast asleep and ready for Santa's visit!
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care..... all 6 of them ( for the 3 of us and one for Grandpa and Grandpa Abbott and Great Grandma Abbott who were all staying with us for the holiday)
And even luckier that Scott set the timer on the camera and captured it!
Here he is leaving Cara's bag of goodies
Merry Christmas from the 3 of us! We hope you hav a blessed and happy holiday!! 
Posing in front of a lighted penguin
The lights were just beautiful
Showing off her cookie before she bit into it
Mommy, Cara and Grandpa
